Chapter 107: The Peach at Hand Can't Fly

Zhang Anqi opened her phone to check the hot list on the short-video platform; now the topic of her new song has risen to third on the hot list.

But the two characters 'Legend' in first place were exceptionally conspicuous! She clicked the video and saw Ye Qing's face.

She was also very familiar with this song Legend, because when she snatched it from Ye Qing, she had already recorded it once.

After recording, she was ready to release it.

But just as she was about to finalize the copyright agreement, composer Jiang Cheng said he wouldn't sell it.

Only then did she miss out on this song! Now when she sees this song again, it has returned to its original owner and firmly overwhelms her! Just a moment ago she still thought her new song had hit the hot list, and the topic was her trump card!

But the ridiculous part is she's third, while they're first!

Zhang Anqi stared at her phone screen, her complexion shifting.

After a while, she lifted her head, trying to keep a smile, but the smile she forced out looked worse than crying.

"Mr. Jiang, may you have lofty mountains and flowing waters; we'll meet again in the jianghu."

Zhang Anqi threw down a sentence and turned to leave.

The assistant who had followed her behind hurriedly chased after her.

She could feel that her young master was now angry; going back would surely bring another storm.

Thinking of this, she trembled slightly.

The property general manager stood there, looking left at the departing Zhang Anqi and right at Jiang Cheng.

He wondered what kind of remarkable person had come to his commercial district—so young, yet he didn't even put the entertainment circle's top star Zhang Anqi in his eyes, forcing her to retreat in defeat! Everyone in the crew who had just seen this scene also sighed incessantly.

One must know that Zhang Anqi's new work rose to third on the hot list because she had a large fan base, and not long ago another song had garnered her a lot of traffic, the residual heat of which had not yet faded.

However, this young man Jiang Cheng's song from their studio can be considered a typical cold start—that is, before any fermentation, it had zero heat and attention.

Yet in this cold-start situation it shot to first on the hot list; likewise, with no public opinion at all, it reached first purely on the strength of the work itself!

Leaving fame aside, just speaking of the hot list's gold content, it's unknown how much higher it is than Zhang Anqi's; after all, although Zhang Anqi also relied on work strength, she had prior heat.

Zhang Anqi left, and Jiang Cheng didn't take it to heart.

He walked over to check the documents that had been retrieved for him.

Ye Qing stood behind, her two fingers clasped together, an uncontrollable smile on her face.

Even though she is naturally kind and has never harmed anyone, seeing her work triumph over Zhang Anqi and Zhang Anqi retreating in frustration filled her with an indescribable joy.

Chu Siqi leaned close to Ye Qing and whispered, "The big star has made it big!"

"Isn't it great? If it's great, say it out!"

She and Ye Qing were also somewhat acquainted; she had heard Ye Qing say that at the company, Zhang Anqi had snatched songs from her.

Ye Qing gave Chu Siqi a coquettish glance and patted her arm.

Although she didn't speak, the answer was already written on her face.

Director Wang Qiangwei stroked his chin, looking with interest at Jiang Cheng, who was examining the documents.

He hadn't expected Jiang Cheng to not only write scripts but also compose songs; moreover, from just now it was clear that his song made Zhang Anqi so envious she didn't hesitate to lower her stature and actively come over to request a song.

Furthermore, there is already a song written by Jiang Cheng sitting at first place on the hot list.

Therefore, with these conditions combined, we can be 100% certain that Jiang Cheng's song reaching the hot list is no luck.

But it's genuine strength! Moreover, the director doesn't know that Zhang Anqi's previous hit song was also because Jiang Cheng wrote it.

"Thanks, the documents have been retrieved, no problem."

After Jiang Cheng finished checking his documents, he found that his script had been completely retrieved, with no other issues.

The director said, "As long as I haven't caused you trouble, that's fine; I'll start shooting here, thanks for providing the venue, we'll discuss the follow-up later."

Jiang Cheng nodded and said, "Okay, go ahead and shoot; I won't disturb you here either."

After saying that, he took Ye Qing and Chu Siqi toward the outside of the work hall, glancing at Xiao Jingyuan as he passed.

Xiao Jingyuan happened to be looking at Jiang Cheng as well; he felt his face burning hot! Ever since he became famous, wherever he went he was the protagonist, but he never expected that today the protagonist here would be a younger young man than him! Even Zhang Anqi isn't given a glance by this young man, yet he instead shows off his sense of superiority in front of this young man, making him feel like a joke.

The more he thought this way, the more he resented his assistant, that guy who claimed his experience was useful—utter nonsense!

……

Ye Qing's recorded song shot onto the hot list; many bloggers on the short-video platform live off traffic, so they naturally wouldn't miss this wave.

Consequently, various edited videos and explanations related to this song began to fly everywhere.

Jiang Cheng brought Chu Siqi and them back to the office cubicle.

Chu Siqi asked Jiang Cheng again: "Boss, what should we do next? "Now there are already many partners seeking cooperation in my backend information, various brands and game companies have offered high prices."

"Especially for game makers, they simply offered astronomical prices—someone offered 8 million just for Ye Qing to film a single video."

Jiang Cheng's gaze turned to Ye Qing, and such an image involuntarily surfaced in his mind.

"The new version is, brothers, come hack me!"

Jiang Cheng couldn't help but shiver.

After thinking, he said: "Let's fly solo for a while, don't rush."

This is just the beginning; originally we didn't plan to build an IP, but now Ye Qing's IP, as soon as it's launched, tops the hot list—this can be called a one-investment, ten-thousand-fold return operation.

At this point, having such an IP venture into gameification, mini-ads, and the like would somewhat be self-sabotage.

Moreover, the studio now has only three people, and Jiang Cheng himself still has several hundred thousand, so funds are not lacking.

Naturally, there's no rush to overextend the IP's potential to make money.

……

Another two days passed.

During these two days, not only did the song Legend steadily occupy the hot list, but it also drove many hot topics, at least seven or eight.

Legend can be considered truly breaking out of the circle.

But the singer of Legend, Ye Qing, after singing this song, disappeared as if vanishing without a trace.

No staff or official behind the scenes of this song came out to respond to its popularity.

As the operator of this song, Jiang Cheng.

At this moment, Jiang Cheng was thinking about a more important problem.

These past two days, he hasn't contacted Yujie Su Manyao, and likewise Su Manyao hasn't contacted him!

This left Jiang Cheng unable to sit still; a ripe peach, how could you let her fly? If you really let her fly, you'd want to slap yourself even when waking up at midnight! (End of chapter)